robot, There is a macine that walks on three legs. It's called a "walking dragline" earth movig machine. The center is round and when it is standing on the center it can rotate. There is a shaft that runs across to each foot. It has three squares on it. On the squares are <eccentric> rollers.(off set wheels if you would) As the shaft rolls the center to the ground the outer rollers lift the feet. Then the eccentric rolls along an oblong frame. As the feet come froward the the eccentric comes to a hi point where the feet are again on the ground. The center is then lifting and so on. The machines weight is well over a million lb. Guess i could draw a rough schech. naaw

Thanks, I'll have to look around for some info on it......There was a walking logging machine(four-legger) on "Mega Machines" a while back, that looked like the "pachyderm" walker that NASA built in the 60's but lower to the ground...

I was one of the welder/fiter-fabucater on te nasa walker. Also worked on several walking draglines and the crawler that carries the shuttle from ready to the pad. For the last one, I was the crane operator to torque every thing to spec too. They have severl new ones sence.

unjonharley wrote:I was one of the welder/fiter-fabucater on te nasa walker. Also worked on several walking draglines and the crawler that carries the shuttle from ready to the pad. For the last one, I was the crane operator to torque every thing to spec too. They have severl new ones sence.

Just saw a bug on the toons this morning. It walked upright and suported it's self between steps with it's four wings. The wings come to almost completely cover the bug when closed. The wings were round at the bottom when closed and pointed when open. The cartoonist was pretty sharp. Think I will put this idea in my back pocket for future. THose THat WAlk could be a neat sub-Theme some time. Like next year????

My name is Edwin R. (Dick) Spitzmesser. I am the son of Gordon Spitzmesser, the inventor of the gas powered pogo stick featured in your web site. I was 12 during the time Dad was working on this invention- he had several other patents, and many ideas (he died last May).

I would test it each time he tinkered with it. It ran on butane, but really jumped high when we once used a mixture of acetelyene and oxygen! He used a model "A" Ford spark coil which delivered quite a few volts to the unprotected spark plug - as I once found out when my zipper came in contact with it briefly. I haven't had a thrill like that since!

In 1960 or 1961 we were invited to appear on the "Dave Garroway" show in New York City. Dad was interviewed and I demonstrated the product on national television. By the way he called it the "Pop Along."

He never made any money from the invention, but he enjoyed it immensely. He was working on a car that would run on water, but would never tell me the details. Thanks for honoring him on your website.

I want to know why you aren't somewhat skeptical. Did you notice that the video of this thing moving always has a visual break between the live action of the inventor walking and then the machine moving?